10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
A few paddle strokes down the river and on the right bank there were four Impala antelopes ( Aepyceros melampus ). The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak…. Cattle Egret 16. Vervet Monkey c. Grey Heron 4.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2018
In the first full day, we have seen dozens each of giraffes, zebra, warthogs, elephants, 12 rhinos, 30 hippos, 3 Cape Buffalo, crocodiles, jackals, monkeys, baboons, literally a thousand impala, and at least 10 different antelope type animals. The mighty rhino along with the Cattle Egret.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral. Mursi woman.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2014
There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. Hence, I had the be equally grumpy to explain to them that I had an equal right to be there (equal right?
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2017
Although a lot of beautiful rainforest was replaced by bananas, cattle pasture, and other ag-lands many years ago, at least we can still enjoy great birding at a number of sites, most of which are easily accessible including Sarapiqui, the most visited site in the lowlands north of San Jose.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2019
We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. There was something “not right” about it. If the train did not go all of the way then we took a connecting bus or walked. It was not a Milky Stork or a Painted Stork.
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